Gvfs not very stable in Ubuntu 16.04, affects Cryptomator

Greg_Bell · September 10, 2017, 9:27am

Just a note to anybody using Cryptomator with Linux. At least with 16.04 LTS, gvfs is a bit unstable. So the nice way Cryptomator mounts your vault via DAV and gvfs means a few things:

Sometimes the application accessing the gvfs volume (/run/user/1002/gvfs/blah) will hang hard. No ctrl-C or Ctrl-\ will save you. The workaround is to kill -9 the application (or xkill it) lock and re-unlock the vault.
Since there are a variety of File dialogs on Linux, some applications will not be able to see the nice gvfs mount.

edmundlaugasson · September 9, 2017, 6:09pm

Unfortunately I have to confirm this (using 64-bit Linux Mint 18.2 MATE, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) and looks like this prevents me of using Cryptomator at all as I am using Linux as my main system. In my case I tried to use VLC with Cryptomator and result was fatal - only reboot helped… Tried even newer kernel 4.12.11-041211-generic (64-bit) and this did not help either. This is unacceptable that in the middle of working just everything hangs and in my case I could not get no access until rebooted the computer. Cryptomator just said that one instance is running and it will exit:

[main] INFO org.cryptomator.launcher.Cryptomator - Starting Cryptomator 1.3.1 on Linux 4.12.11-041211-generic (amd64)
[main] WARN org.cryptomator.launcher.InterProcessCommunicator - System property cryptomator.ipcPortPath not set.
[main] DEBUG org.cryptomator.launcher.InterProcessCommunicator - Connecting to running process on TCP port 43667...
[main] INFO org.cryptomator.launcher.Cryptomator - Found running application instance. Shutting down.

But I could not have any access anymore through file manager or command-line. There were numerous different processes running by cryptomator and reboot was the fastest way to get system back.

Greg_Bell · September 9, 2017, 11:49pm

Since rebooting Linux is supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I think I’ve found that killing the gvfsd works. This frees up the various things waiting on IO and then it respawns itself.

edmundlaugasson · September 10, 2017, 12:29am

This is good but is not a solution (more like a workaround) as all opened files will lose the connection and data loss may occur - there is never known when gvfs freeze occur and unsaved data will be lost. Also files are needed to reopen and over dav:// it is not so comfortable (fast) either.

Greg_Bell · September 10, 2017, 5:17am

Yes, of course, just like rebooting. I was hopping on the workaround bandwagon.

Cryptomator devs? Solution?

overheadhunter · June 14, 2018, 8:54am

In the meantime we’ve released the first beta of Cryptomator 1.4.0, which comes with FUSE support. Have you tried this yet?

Greg_Bell · June 14, 2018, 10:32pm

Can you post a direct link to make it easy for readers of this thread?

overheadhunter · June 14, 2018, 11:27pm

Sure: You can download 1.4.0-beta1 for Linux as an AppImage from here.

Just make the AppImage executable and run it. No further dependencies needed.